Mk2 Estate Hubs & Diff, panels- Wanted
Posted: Wed May 09, 2018 9:08 am
Hi folks,
Having got some miles under my belt on my newly purchased PI (now on carbs) manual estate, there's a few bits that we've established need doing sooner rather than later. The car is supposed to be on the RBRR in October...
The diff is extremely noisy when cruising, which from the amount of oil on it and not in it would be the usual blocked breather/ failed nose seal/ oil gone/ diff knackered malarkey. Now from having a looksee on here it looks like it should be a 3.7 and estates use the Mk1 set up, so I suppose what I'm after is a Mk1 or estate 3.7 diff in good order please!
I'd also like a pair of rear hubs, one of my bearings is dubious... the intention is to get recon exchanged ones but I'd rather buy a decent second hand pair and exchange those in case mine turn out to be toast. One of our team is a mechanic and we can use the lift at his garage on a Sunday, unfortunately he's 120 miles away from me so the plan is to do as much as we can as quickly as possible!
I'm going to replace all the brakes as a matter of course (and upgrade to Stag discs and calipers up front, mostly 'cos I happen to have a pair of calipers already). Having free'd off the rear adjusters last weekend we noticed one of the drums is cracked from the centre bore to a wheel stud bore- so could do with one of those too.
Had a good grub around underneath and it looks surprisingly solid- unfortunately outside is less so. It really needs the sills doing (has cover sills, boo) and the wheel arches are less than great. However the worst bits are the trailing edges of both front wings, particularly the N/S (which has had a half wing in the past, poorly prep'd) and the front arches. Longer term if I can justify it it'll get sills and new half wings both ends (I've already found Lloyd's website ) but if anyone has anything suitable (panel cuts from a breaker etc) that could be used to tidy it up for a few years that would be good for now- rear wings aren't as bad but do need arches as well so I guess the same goes for there.
I'm in sunny Gloucestershire by the way although I'm not averse to travelling, especially if someone has several bits and bobs
Oh, and if there's anyone experienced in patching up ropey old Triumphs who is really enthusiastic about fitting new sills and arches to a less than pristine PI estate at a fairly agreeable rate then please shout up... well, if you don't ask
Cheers all,
Matt
(who will be joining the club now he's got his grubby mits on a car at long last)
Having got some miles under my belt on my newly purchased PI (now on carbs) manual estate, there's a few bits that we've established need doing sooner rather than later. The car is supposed to be on the RBRR in October...
The diff is extremely noisy when cruising, which from the amount of oil on it and not in it would be the usual blocked breather/ failed nose seal/ oil gone/ diff knackered malarkey. Now from having a looksee on here it looks like it should be a 3.7 and estates use the Mk1 set up, so I suppose what I'm after is a Mk1 or estate 3.7 diff in good order please!
I'd also like a pair of rear hubs, one of my bearings is dubious... the intention is to get recon exchanged ones but I'd rather buy a decent second hand pair and exchange those in case mine turn out to be toast. One of our team is a mechanic and we can use the lift at his garage on a Sunday, unfortunately he's 120 miles away from me so the plan is to do as much as we can as quickly as possible!
I'm going to replace all the brakes as a matter of course (and upgrade to Stag discs and calipers up front, mostly 'cos I happen to have a pair of calipers already). Having free'd off the rear adjusters last weekend we noticed one of the drums is cracked from the centre bore to a wheel stud bore- so could do with one of those too.
Had a good grub around underneath and it looks surprisingly solid- unfortunately outside is less so. It really needs the sills doing (has cover sills, boo) and the wheel arches are less than great. However the worst bits are the trailing edges of both front wings, particularly the N/S (which has had a half wing in the past, poorly prep'd) and the front arches. Longer term if I can justify it it'll get sills and new half wings both ends (I've already found Lloyd's website ) but if anyone has anything suitable (panel cuts from a breaker etc) that could be used to tidy it up for a few years that would be good for now- rear wings aren't as bad but do need arches as well so I guess the same goes for there.
I'm in sunny Gloucestershire by the way although I'm not averse to travelling, especially if someone has several bits and bobs
Oh, and if there's anyone experienced in patching up ropey old Triumphs who is really enthusiastic about fitting new sills and arches to a less than pristine PI estate at a fairly agreeable rate then please shout up... well, if you don't ask
Cheers all,
Matt
(who will be joining the club now he's got his grubby mits on a car at long last)